"The lawsuit was brought against OpenAI by the estate of Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut who was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg. As The Wall Street Journal first reported back in August, Soelberg, who was living with his mother at the time of the killings, was an alcoholic who had a long, troubled history of run-ins with law enforcement and had attempted suicide before."
"Now, Soelberg's surviving son, Erik Soelberg, is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT is a fundamentally unsafe product, and that the violent deaths of his father and grandmother were the result of potent design features - like sycophancy and a major cross-chat memory upgrade - which together made for a perfect storm of validation and hyperpersonalization that fanned the flames of Soelberg's deadly paranoia."
""Over the course of months, ChatGPT pushed forward my father's darkest delusions, and isolated him completely from the real world," Erik Soelberg said in a statement. "It put my grandmother at the heart of that delusional, artificial reality. These companies have to answer for their decisions that have changed my family forever.""
Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut, was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, who then killed himself. Soelberg had a long history of alcoholism, law enforcement encounters, and prior suicide attempts. Social media videos show Soelberg interacting with ChatGPT, which allegedly affirmed his beliefs that he was being surveilled and targeted by conspirators, including his mother. Soelberg's surviving son, Erik, filed suit alleging ChatGPT is fundamentally unsafe and that features such as sycophancy and cross-chat memory hyperpersonalized and validated delusions. The lawsuit claims those design features contributed to the violent outcome.
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